Mass Rescuer: Chiune Sugihara

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During WWII, the Nazi regime sought to exterminate millions of people they saw as inferior. Despite their campaign of horror, those dark days inspired some to act - to risk their lives to save their friends, their neighbors, and even strangers whose lives were at risk through no fault of their own. One of the men who was willing to risk his life and career to save others came from a surprising place - Japan. The story of Chiune Sugihara, the vice-consul for the Japanese Empire in Lithuania, and how his efforts saved innocent lives, is history that deserves to be remembered.
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@reuvenreich5927 2 года назад

My maternal grandparents were among those he saved. They spent the war in Shanghai and were blessed to come to America afterwards. If his family see this, we too have become many more than the two people he originally saved and are forever grateful for his bravery and kindness!

@davidthedeaf 2 года назад

If you believe in God, I would suggest praying for whoever his descendants are during Covid to survive and be healthy. That is really the best we can do.

@livin4thelamb499 2 года назад

That's wild! 😮

@johndavis9432 2 года назад

He was and always will be a true hero.

@prunecuda1 Месяц назад

Forever thank you, Sugihara. You are rightfully seated among the righteous. A lighted beacon in the darkest days of humanity.

@khukri_wielderxxx1962 2 года назад

These are the heros you never hear about, but deserve to be known

@HM2SGT 2 года назад

Observing your nom de plume, I think you might find a video on RU-vid by the fat electrician interesting; his 3-minute take on the gurkhas. Someone informative and largely amusing, completely entertaining.

@khukri_wielderxxx1962 2 года назад

@@HM2SGT I might look that up, thanks!

@goodun2974 2 года назад

"There is no limit to the good a man can do if he doesn't care who gets the credit". Sorry, can't remember the author of that quote.

@khukri_wielderxxx1962 2 года назад

@Kabuki Kitsune They made a couple movies about him

@johndavis9432 2 года назад

@Kabuki Kitsune That man was also a hero as far as I'm concerned.

@tewaarathon215 2 года назад

Thank you so much for perpetuating the memory of Chiune Sugihara. A man who did what he knew was right, even though he knew it would bring him hardship. When those hardships came, he did not complain, but got on and did what he had to do to provide for his family. I often think of his example when I have to make difficult decisions in my life.

@baldeagle5297 2 года назад

That is the very definition of a hero.

@rebeccawaggoner3804 Год назад

The last line, "I am thirty seven people", made me cry. Beautiful story of a beautiful person

@DawnOldham 2 года назад

9:51 “I acted out of my sense of human justice and my love for humankind.” Thoughts behind a hero’s actions. This moved me. And at the end, when one man said that he owed his gratitude and that he was “37 people”. Can you imagine that number multiplied by the descendants of all of the people who escaped on one of Sugihara’s visas?

@newname4785 2 года назад

There was a video (pretty sure on youtube) who performed a genealogy search on the survivors of 10 people who saved others during the holocaust and how many descendents there was up to the time of the video. It was remarkable.

@SafetySpooon 2 года назад

This is why Judaism states that "He who saves one life has saved a nation"

@DawnOldham 2 года назад

@@SafetySpooon I like that!!!

@DawnOldham 2 года назад

@@newname4785 that is amazing that someone took the time to educate the rest of us! Thank you for sharing that!

@HM2SGT 2 года назад

History that deserves to be remembered indeed. Oh! The humanity!

@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647 2 года назад

:) him and only a few of his kind saw them as human

@mirskym 2 года назад

His son and family were honoured in Jerusalem yesterday at the site of a park dedicated in his father's name.

@constipatedinsincity4424 2 года назад

See this man did the right thing for everyone who needed help and a chance!

@thisisbeyondajoke6748 2 года назад

Drink plenty of clean water for your problem

@rodgerrodger1839 2 года назад

Another fantastic piece of history that should be taught in every school.

@_spacegoat_ 2 года назад

"How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world."

@chrishorbatt3504 2 года назад

This story really is history that needs to be remembered!

@mdlclassguymdlclassguy6488 2 года назад

Remembered and emulated, we have many people that have been fleeing inhumane circumstances in south America in recent times only to be met by cruelty from little people in position of power, wrapped in so called Christianity

@stick_11 9 месяцев назад

Chiune Sugihara is definitely a great person. Thank you.

@FuzzyMarineVet 2 года назад

I love the Orthodox Christian icon of Saint Chiune Sugihara. Thanks, Lance.

@Paladin1873 2 года назад

I learned about him only a week ago when a friend sent me an article on his life. Amazing how the internet still can spread good stories quickly amidst its usual noise.

@victorsahni2071 11 месяцев назад

Chiune Sugihara is always born to be a Japanese supehero. STRAIGHT UP 😎😎💯💯🔥🔥👍👍

@ChiefMac59 2 года назад

Too few people had his level of humanity. May his name be a blessing to all

@Artur_M. 2 года назад

This is certainly a history that deserves to be remembered and it's great to see it being told! Personally, I like how you touched on the peculiar topic of Polish-Japanese relations during the war. One aspect that wasn't mentioned was that since Japan continued to recognise the Polish Government-in-exile and maintain diplomatic relations with it, the Jewish refugees that reached Japan or Shanghai (most of them Polish citizens prior to the war) could count on the help of the Polish ambassador in Tokyo, Tadeusz Romer.

@Doobie3010 2 года назад

The ebb and flow of history is never black & white.Good people are good people,even at the most complex of politics or warfare.

@ReluctantCriticDude 2 года назад

A true hero. A compassionate human who should be taught to all children as an example of doing the right thing in the face of adversity.

@jimmyyu2184 2 года назад

In the darkest hours of human history, it's single candle like these that gives hope, to hundreds and thousands. Great episode THG!!!

@njdevilku1340 2 года назад

May his name (and all others who resisted evil) always be remembered.

@ronmaximilian6953 2 года назад

A square in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Kiryat Yovel was dedicated to Sugihara on Monday.

@chiefpontiac1800 2 года назад

To provide aid to another that is in need is a sign of a true, good heart. Now more than ever do we need people like Chiune Sugihara. HG, you have provided me time to pause and think. Thank you.

@arthur9078 2 года назад

As a Lithuanian, I knew very little about this man & what he did but this video was very insightful & his story definitely deserves to be remembered. Thank you for telling this nearly forgotten piece of history & for living up to your name as The History Guy.

@dogstar7 2 года назад

My late wife grew up in post-war Tokyo and knew Sugihara's son, whom she went to school with. The mother ran a peddling stall during the years Sugihara was "working" in the Soviet Union. In fact he was hovered up by NKVD when the Iron Curtain fell in eastern Europe and was being detained in a penal colony for his espionage

@christianfreedom-seeker934 2 года назад

Dang. They sent him to the Gulag? That is harsh but not a surprise.

@StutleyConstable 2 года назад

If anyone wants a good example of how to be a good, strong human being, Sugihara would be a great choice.

@elaineburnett5230 2 года назад

He was a great choice.

@davidthedeaf 2 года назад

Many today face far less punishment if they disobey a superior’s cruel orders. They still cannot handle doing what they know is morally righteous. This is why my town is so corrupt, poor, and oppressed. They cannot fathom why the crime and homelessness increase?

@loqutus8 2 года назад

Thank you Sir for bringing to everyone’s attention a Hero who deserves recognition to the entire world

@grimreaper6557 2 года назад

A true hero and humanitarian someone who should be remembered =)

@StacieStreams Год назад

I have known about him since I was the child. The Sugihara house in Kaunas is located not too far from a place I grew up. He is an underrated hero, who did so much to save people. Person like him deserves to be known and remembered.

@PeterOkeefe54 2 года назад

I am bewildered that our own academia is so pitiful compared to a simple youtubers teaching...Thank you for showing us the Schindler from japan

@thomasechols8834 2 года назад

Imagine a farmer that during the war gave 90% of his crop yields to the war effort, or a community of farmers that did that exact thing, and did it without compensation from a government, and that never took a farm subsidy, and that lived outside of the large cities and worked their own farms, those people never get recognized for what they did, nor did they ask, a group of ladies in churches that made blankets and clothing of all kinds for the poor and sent those things to religious groups that did missionary work, they get no recognition, why? because they did what was good and right without asking for or expecting recognition. those stories never get seen......thanks for recognizing one small aspect of the goodness of the world.

@arnenelson4495 2 года назад

Well stated, thank you!

@The_Touring_Jedi 2 года назад

Today we need more humanity then ever, because the one's that are trying to dehumanize us are getting stronger each day... History repeating only with other tools...

@thomasechols8834 2 года назад

@@The_Touring_Jedi the cycle will continue as long as socialism is allowed to infect the minds of tyrants. Sadly I suspect socialism is with the world as long as humans control the planet.

@lahma69 2 года назад

@@thomasechols8834 Isn't that the truth... and yet we live in a country where this ideology has infected our education system and is being taught to our children. As a result of having liberties and living in a free country, not having lived under the yoke of communism or known tyranny and authoritarian dictatorship, we've lost the ability to truly value those very freedoms and liberties. Meanwhile peoples who've lived under that tyranny and experienced communism first hand are looking at our youth who are openly advocating for such a government are totally confused as to why an entire generation of people from America, a supposedly freedom loving democracy, are advocating for the type of governance that they escaped and detest.

@davidkleinthefamousp 2 года назад

Well said

@Shinzon23 2 года назад

People like these bring a tear to my eye. They did what they could and saved lives, and for that, I salute them.

@LordWhatever 2 года назад

Can't stop my tears... never forget evil but also never forget that when darkness is prevailing a little light can shine through.

@jamesturner2126 2 года назад

I truly love this man. He needs a posthumous nobel peace prize. Sugihara deserves to be remembered. HERO!!!!!

@55ATA3 2 года назад

I believe that some people act and some hide, Chiune Sugihara was one of the people that acted and we are lucky that he was in the right place at the right time to do so...

@harryshriver6223 2 года назад

A wonderful and touching story, how many lives this one man impacted, generations of people who would have never existed but for the sympathy felt by one soul.I am moved to tears by the humanity, like the man said at the end, "I am 37 people...."

@jhfdhgvnbjm75 2 года назад

War usually brings out the worst in people, but sometimes, just sometimes, it brings out the very best.

@Pyth110 2 года назад

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@donaldcook3314 2 года назад

" I am only one. But I am one" And if Chiune Sugihara was an army the world may be a better place now.

@valerieschoen7494 2 года назад

There is a children’s book about this gentleman called Passage to Freedom by Ken Mochizuki. I’d never heard of this gentleman until I encountered this book as an elementary schoolteacher. It was included in a reading textbook.

@HM2SGT 2 года назад

Thank you. When your upload becomes available I don't know what I'm going to get, but I do know I'm going to like it. It's like Christmas morning 3 days a week with the history guy!

@DawnOldham 2 года назад

My favorite three days a week!

@Peter-oh3hc 2 года назад

Thank you. Learning more about people who are "Righteous among the Nations" is always a good thing

@pedropinheiroaugusto3220 2 года назад

Aristides de Sousa Mendes, portuguese consul to Bordeaux, France, also passed as many visas as he could to whomever asked, against official orders from the portuguese fascist dictatorship. He was sacked, persecuted, died in poverty, his large family struggling. True heroes.

@sirmeowthelibrarycat 2 года назад

🤔 Indeed. I have read a biography of Aristides de Sousa Mendes. It was inspirational and restored my hope for humanity, at least while reading it. The way the Salazar dictatorship treated Aristides was both cruel and vengeful. I hope that his name is recognised and celebrated in Portugal. Aristides de Sousa Mendes 💐 Righteous Among Nations.

@pedropinheiroaugusto3220 2 года назад

@@sirmeowthelibrarycat After the 1974 Revolution, his memory was recovered. He was now admitted in the National Pantheon.

@zenolachance1181 2 года назад

I just want to know what kind of person could give a dislike to such wonderful content. I am constantly amazed at the ignorance of some people

@erictroxell715 2 года назад

At the 1100 minutes mark....stop and look at the little girl!! Imagine the fear she experienced, then the HOPE she had now living in japan. Thank you sir...you won't be forgotten

@muhchung 2 года назад

Please give us more heartwarming stories like this. It comforts me in this ugly and violent world.

@goldgeologist5320 2 года назад

Great man. Thank you for bringing him too our attention.

@JoeBLOWFHB 2 года назад

"If I had obeyed my Emperor...I would have been disobeying my God" - Chiune Sugihara

@stephenkorab6456 2 года назад

A truly beautiful quote! Thank you !

@alexandermalinowski4277 2 года назад

Question: is this quote true??? 2 doubts: Sugihara disobeyed a telegram from his own ministry, because he believed the opinions are divided. As to perception, he follow the best interest of his ministry, his country and his Emperor. Moreover, he was Buddhists, so no God believer. Reality check: FAKE

@henriquebraga5266 Год назад

@@alexandermalinowski4277 I don't know if the first half of what you're saying is true, nor am I even entirely sure that what you wrote is coherent or makes any pretence of coherence. However, regarding his religious convictions, I can assure you that Chiune converted to Eastern Orthodox Christianity during his time in Harbin, when he served in the Manchurian Foreign Office. That made him a believer in the Christian God, despite being born in a borrowed Buddhist temple.

@alexandermalinowski4277 Год назад

@@henriquebraga5266 Probably he didn’t convert, he just convert to marry a Russian girl.

@lehua16 Год назад

Sorry Sugihara said "if obeyed to the government" not to the emperor. The fact that the emperor then absolutely could not stand Hitler for his racism. Not that the emperor himself could make military decisions, he thought it was insult to Japan, if you know imperial family and Japanese people's close connection to ancient Israel.

@notthefbi7932 2 года назад

One of your best unknown stories that definitely needs to be remembered, great job 👍

@zhisu2665 Год назад

An absolutely amazing man, there must be hundreds to thousands of unknown people who helped saved countless lives, not for recognition but for the love of humanity and heart. even saving one person is already the greatest thing one can do, it really shows that even in the darkest of times there are ALWAYS going to be people who will risk their lives to help someone else.

@mikedx2706 2 года назад

The History Guy needs to do the history of German Army Major Karl Plagge who ran a military vehicle repair facility in Lithuania where he sheltered Jews and their families from the SS. He saved hundreds of Lithuanian and Polish Jews.

@deborahdanhauer8525 2 года назад

I didn’t know about this wonderful man until today. I can only hope that I would have such courage if I was in his place. We seriously need examples such as him right now, when so many seem to have lost themselves to hate. Thank you so much for introducing him to us. 🐝❤️🤗

@Harv72b 2 года назад

I first learned of Sugihara through my love of music. The American band Savatage included a song titled "Chance" on an album released in 1994, the lyrics having been inspired by Chiune's story. Savatage still performs the song in their current form, as the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Definitely worth checking out. Thank you so much for making this episode. Few things are as inspiring as an individual with the courage to do what's right, regardless of the risk.

@mdlclassguymdlclassguy6488 2 года назад

This was a saint, everyone should strive to be so humane to those they cross paths with

@DonP_is_lostagain 2 года назад

You know, history book are full of men styled (oft-times self-styled as well) as "great men". But Mr. Sugihara stands out as one who is truly deserving of that appellation: A Great Man.

@johnlansing2902 2 года назад

Courage knows but one home , the heart.

@goodun2974 2 года назад

Meanwhile, in Southlake Texas, a school curriculum director issued instructions that anyone teaching schoolchildren from books about the Holocaust must include a book or books with an "opposing perspective".

@gugleu9 2 года назад

Teaching "alternate facts". So sad for those children. Hopefully , when they grow older, they will discover THG.

@tygrkhat4087 2 года назад

Wonderful. Either they get deniers or those who agree. "Deep in the heart of Texas..." /s

@goodun2974 2 года назад

@@tygrkhat4087, sadly, the school administrator did *not* mean that they should teach about people with good hearts who opposed the Nazis in their genocidal endeavor and helped Jews to escape, despite personal risk. That's the only "opposing perspective" that children should receive on this subject: the necessity of opposing bigotry and injustice even when it's inconvenient or perhaps even dangerous.

@ernestscribbler2294 2 года назад

Shame on the parents for allowing such director to keep his job.

@matthewmillburg3933 2 года назад

Yeah horrifying at first glance, insanely horrifying at second glance

@paintedwings74 2 года назад

Sugihara is one of those people who are worthy of emulation ... my own declared hero is Jonas Salk, another of those kinds of people who does not seek fame or fortune, just seeks to save the lives of other people, ones he did not have personal relationships with. Quiet heroes are the ones who matter most, whether they be known or unknown. Thank you for sharing this deeply moral human being with me, History Guy.

@johnhobson9165 2 года назад

I've never understood why neither Salk nor Sabin got a Nobel Prize.

@datasailor8132 2 года назад

There’s also Raoul Wallenberg from Sweden who saved many thousands of Jews but disappeared at the end of the war. He is believed to have died in 1947 at the notorious Lubyanka Prison.

@TehAwesomer 2 года назад

There's also Sousa Mendes from Portugal : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristides_de_Sousa_Mendes

@goldenagenut 2 года назад

It's great that you create vids like this about history that eeserves to be remembered. There should be a monument to that man somewhere.

@Shay43210 10 месяцев назад

3 out of my great grandparents were saved by Sugihara. They stayed in the Shanghai ghetto

@hankvandenakker4271 2 года назад

THANK YOU, HISTORY GUY, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS HISTORY (UNKNOWN TO ME). YOU ARE FANTASTIC.

@christian-michaelhansen471 2 года назад

To The History Guy, Sir, I applaud your attention to detail, your concise nature and understanding of your work. You show us again and again how everyone, anyone, with the courage, compassion, and strength of will can be a hero. How many of those individuals he helped are indeed “Thirty seven people.”… or more.

@edl617 2 года назад

In the face of tyranny The strong willed can protect the weak.

@The_Touring_Jedi 2 года назад

Same we have today...the one that did not got the jab are considered parasites in modern Western Europe and the rest of the World...I hope we won't let history repeats again...

@candaceaustin4258 2 года назад

Fabulous! More people are being brought to light who saved so many.

@IDNHANTU2day 2 года назад

There have been so many unsung heroes in history. Often when don't find out about them until they pass. Nowadays, losers like to set up a video of themselves doing something good like buying a homeless man a donut, just to put it on RU-vid and get likes. Yet Sugihara, a real hero, didn't give a rat's ass about fame. He was truly a wonderful man. I wish I had met him and thanked him.

@korbell1089 2 года назад

Thank you THG! It's nice to know that in a world gone mad and even if the madness is government policy, there are those who not only think it's not right but have the strength to do something about it!

@octaro3277 2 года назад

I'm proud of him as Japanese. I live in the US and have met nice Jewish people. We Japanese are very kind and hospitable therefore, please visit our country.

@jR060t 2 года назад

I really needed to hear something like this today. Thank you.

@hlynnkeith9334 2 года назад

"I owe more to him than my own life." I have never heard a greater tribute.

@PSPaaskynen 2 года назад

I am surprised this video does not mention Jan Zwartendijk, the Dutch consul in Lituania, who started the whole thing. He provided "visa" for the destination country, the Carribean island of Curacao which at the time was a territory of the Netherlands. With this stamp in their passport the refugees could go to Sugihara for their transit visa. You can see in the video Sugihara's stamp which mentions Curacao and other Dutch possessions as the destination. If you want to know more, the Guardian published an article about the belated recognition of Zwartendijk on Sunday 26 Sep 2021.

@Matt85ism 2 года назад

I have never heard of this man, thank you!

@stephenmtimmons 2 года назад

Excellent little known story about doing the right thing at the right time.

@daveh2504 2 года назад

I read a short article about him many years ago. Glad to see him remembered. My paternal grandparents lost relatives to the Holocaust. It is good to learn of those who cared.

@williamdonnelly224 4 месяца назад

As usual, an excellently researched and well told story. I was in tears at the end. Bravo History Guy!

@garydean0308 2 года назад

"I am 37 people." Profound.

@JonBlondell 2 года назад

I've always wondered what happened to this man. So now I'm about to find out, thank you! When I first became aware of him, I knew I would never forget his heroism.

@mikeskelly2356 2 года назад

We have these same people today, but the Internet and 'Sensationalist News' has made more money touting the horror and depravity of man, rather than the everyday 'Heroism' of the 'Helpers'. I know we need to improve things, but it's good to hear positivity for a change...

@spankyharland9845 2 года назад

He is the Japanese version of Oskar Schindler...maybe someone can tell Steven Spielberg to make a movie about this fellow....it would make good watching.

@edwardschrlau8932 2 года назад

Just think if everyone would have this compassion for another human being wow just think what this world would really be like I think it's called love and compassion for all of us awesome stuff history guy love it

@geoben1810 2 года назад

This is what a hero is. A uniform and or a badge and gun does NOT make someone a hero. And if you consider yourself a hero, you're NOT one.

@vincegiaccone4411 2 года назад

We should all be compassionate in helping those in need. God Bless you Sir.

@charlestran6265 Месяц назад

It’s so sad that he became a door-to-door lightbulb salesman later in his life, but at the same time very poetic… because every superhero needs a secret identity.

@PhilipDeLong 2 года назад

Naturally, I immediately thought of his mirror image, John Rabe, the Nazi who saved so many in Nanking. Their posting in a foreign city allowed them to see the inhumanity unclouded by local prejudice; their peculiar position allowed them to be effective saviors.

@thelastdefenderofcamelot5623 2 года назад

why would a Nazi save lives?

@ecouturehandmades5166 2 года назад

This is the history that needs telling and telling again. Inspiring the next generation to do the right thing to help others without thought as to what could happen to your own self. Hero is such a small word.

@PlanetEarth3141 2 года назад

It's sad that acts of kindness and fairness are the exceptions to general human response for the poor and downtrodden.

@gregkail4348 2 года назад

Thanks again for the story never heard him before

@mikefranklin1253 2 года назад

Many good people did what they could to stand against evil. Some at a high cost they were willing to pay.

@zerovoidwalker7374 Год назад

A true hero helps those in need not for reward or recognition but for what is just and right.

@jimaanders7527 2 года назад

I hadn't heard of Sugihara. It's a very touching story. Thank you.

@raypelling6440 2 года назад

I had heard something of Mr. Sugihara before now, but I had not known so much about his life before becoming a diplomat-- that he was in fact working in espionage and intelligence gathering. A story that needs to be told and re-told. A journalist on NPR's Snap Judgment Podcast told the story of how he was cleaning a Jewish cemetery in Japan, and an elder Jewish man told him the story. As always, brilliant work, The History Guy! Thank You!

@GigantorsDAD 2 года назад

I only hope when I'm tested my convictions will pass.

@tadroid3858 2 года назад

That was AWESOME! Fitting story on the anniversary of Kosciuszko's death in 1817. Liberty, Integrity, Freedom

@smarkalet9078 2 года назад

A great man. My grandfather and his family were amongst those he saved. They traveled along with the Mir Yeshiva.

@Furniture121 2 года назад

I had been waiting a few days for a Magellan sponsored video to pop up, so I could use the link to get a subscription. This way I get access to great documentaries, and get to support a channel I enjoy.